The fourteenth-largest global exchange represents about 80% of all Bitcoin trading in Japan. Though it currently only allows the trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash, Financial Times recently noted that it could expand into other cryptocurrencies, like Litecoin, in the near future.

"I believe we'll be heading north of $50,000 market price within the next 12 to 18 months," he said.

Stellar Pops on Stripe Pivot

Irish online payment-processing firm Stripe announced yesterday that it will no longer accept Bitcoin payments starting April 23.

The firm blamed slow transaction times and higher transaction fees. This ends a four-year relationship between Bitcoin and Stripe, which was the first major payment processor to accept Bitcoin back in 2014.

So will Stellar replace Bitcoin?

Speculators believe so, and they've pegged their hopes on it.

The price of Stellar climbed 14% after Stripe teased the possibility that it will add support for XLM soon.

Stripe had provided seed funding to Stellar.

"We may add support for Stellar if substantive use continues to grow," Stripe's Tom Karlo said.

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